enemy, on an eminence almoft inacceffible, and their very fuperior force, rendered this enterprize nearly as hazardous to the affailants as its fuccefs was indifpenfa ble to the fafety of the colony. Undaunted, however, by any confiderations of perfonal fafety, alive only to the claims of his country and a sense of his own honour, Cipt. Skynner nobly volunteered his fervices to Governor Seton upon this occafion. The offer was accepted; and the Captain proceeded at midnight with the principal part of the crew of the Zebra, accompanied by the militia of the inland and a few regular troops. After an anxious march of two hours, through the most difficult and broken parts of the bill, Cap'. Skynner and his little troop reached the enemy's camp. The Charaibs were furprized. A fevere confli& enfued, which lafted near an hour. The favage chief and a great proportion of his followers fell in the action. The reft were totally routed and difperfed. Mr. Henry Hill, then heutenant of the Zebra, and who has fince been promoted for his gallant conduct on that memorable night, fought by his Captain's fide, and was feverely wounded. It is well known by thofe in any degree connected with the ifland, that to the fuccefs of this exploit the colony is at the prefent moment indebted for its existence. Its inhabitants, its legiflature, its agents, its merchants, and its planters, have all fucceffively acknowledged this important truth in their feveral addrefes of thanks to Capt. Skynner. The Legislature of the ifland had recently voted him a fword; and it was their intention to have interceded with the Government of this country to grant him, as a more fubftantial recompence for his fervices, a confiderable tract of the forfeited Charaib Lands. Such were the intended tokens of colonial gratitude for thofe fignal benefits his judgement and valour had conferied, by planning and conducting to its happy conclufion an expedition the fuccefs of which, to use their own expreffions, “faved the properties of individuals from an impending totál ruin, and preferved to his Majefty the fovereignty of the inland." Before the inten ion could be carried into execution, Death fnatched him from his honours, his country, and his friends. Services fo. fignal could not long remain unnoticed. In a few days Capt. Skynner was promoted to the rank of poft-captain, and appointed to the command of La Pique frigate. Sir John La Forey, an officer diftinguished for feeking out and rewarding merit, and who fucceeded Admiral Caldwell on the Weft India ftation, nominated Capt. Skynner, almost immediately on his arrival, to the command of the Beaulieu, a 40-gun frigate, and one of the finest of her clafs. In this frigate he exhibited repeated in ftances of his skill in naval tactics. In an early stage of the fiege of the island of St. Lucia, his good conduct and courage were alike confpicuous in affording protection to our troops in their first attack upon 1 principal poft in that ifland. The army failing in their attempt, Capt. Skynner covered their retreat along thore, and received, for nearly three hours, the fire of four batteries, which he, by a very judicious manœuvre, drew wholly on his own thip. This fratagem preferved the English forces by land from that flaughter which muft otherwife have enfued, as they were nearly under the enemy's guns, and were almot incapable of motion from the excetfive fatigue they had previously undergone. Rear-admiral Sir Hugh Chriftian, who headed the naval armament in that quarter, and who was at the time laying in the offing, in the Aftræa frigate, hecalmed, bore his teftimony, in the most flattering terms, to the exemplary conduct of Capt. Skynner on this occafion. In the Autumn of the year 1796, Capt. Skynner, had the honour of bearing home the fig of Admiral Christian, and was continued by the Admiralty in the command of the Beaulieu, in which ship he was employed on the Downs ftation until the period of the unfortunate mutiny in the navy, which happened early in the year 1797. The good difcipline which prevailed on-board his fhip prevented his crew from being infected with the general contagion in the first inftance; but they yielded, at length, to the popular frenzy, and Capt. Skynner, after having been for fome days a prifoner in his cabin, was ultimately under the eceffity of quitting his fhip with most of his officers. It is wholly unneceffary to obferve that no poffible blame could attach to Capt. Skynner from his having been one of the number of thofe who, contrary to all former precedent, were definitled in a fimilar manner from their respective c. me mands, when it is reme ubered that fome of our firft naval characters were devoted to a fimilar fate, and that the Board of Admiralty has, in almost every instance, been particularly anxious to countenance and extend its patronage to thofe officers who were fo unfortunate as to fuffer from the fame difgraceful" infubordination. In the month of April, 1799, Earl Spencer appointed Capt. Skynner to command La Lutine, a 32-gun frigate, completely manned and equipped. The only material fer. vice in which he was engaged in this thip was under the brave Admiral Mitchell in the Zuider Zea, the Lutine forming a part of that British force which awed the Dutch navy into a furrender. In October following, the Lutine was ordered to carry (pecie, to a large amount, for the relief of the Hamburgh merchants. She failed on the morning of the 9th of that month from Yarmouth, Yarmouth, and (as was related by the only Vol. LXX. p. 82. Should not the Hon. med Richard; neither has the other noble family of King, the prefent Peter Lord K. P. 89, b. The Right Hon. Wilmot Earl of Lifburne left iflue by his fecond wife, Dorothy, eldest daughter of John Shaftoe, of Whitworth, in the county of Durham, efq, one fon and two daughters, viz. ft. the Hon. John Vaughan, a lieutenant-co lonel in the army, born March 3, 1769; married, Aug. 2, 1798, the Hon. Lucy Courtenay, fifter of Lord Viscourt Cour tenay, and of the Viscountess Valentia. 2d. Lady Dorothy-Elizabeth Vaughan, born May 13, 1764; married, May 14, 1792, Sir Laurence Palk, hart. of Halden houfe, in Devon, and has iffue. 38. The Lady Mallet Vaughan, born July 30, 1765. The Earl of Lisburne was defcended from one of the most antient Cambrian families, viz. from Colwyn ap Tagno, one of the fifteen tribes of Gwynedd. In the time of Prince Anarawd, anno 875, Colwyn was lord of Ardudwy, and of Evioneth, and of Llyn. His pofterity to this day poffels moft of the land in thofe counties. Colwyn's dwelling is faid to have been at Caer-Colwyn, now Harleigh caftle. The arms of Colwyn are still borne by this noble family. Colwyn Tagnonis in agro Fert inter flexum tria candida lilia florum, Rege fub Anrado vir magni nominis. The family was ennobled by King William III. in 1695, by the titles of Viscount Lif burne, Baron Vaughan, and Baron Fethers. The earldóm of Lifburne was conferred by his present Majefty. Ibid. b. Peter Henry Vatas, the worthy minifter of Caversham, was the eldest for of a physician in London, and was elected from Westminster school to Christchurch in 1737, one year before the prefent archbithop of York, and two years before the late bishop of Oxford. If he was 19 years of age at the time of his election, he could not at the time of his death have been more than 82. On Christmas-day, 1747, he began to officiate as minifter of Caverfham; in which curacy he fucceeded Mr. Sharp, afterwards Principal of Hertford college, and Regius Profellor of Greek, who was of the fame election with him. No other college-preferment could ever tempt him to refign Caversham; but ha ving, in 1780, been prefented to the rec tory of Warley parva, in Effex (L. 184), in exchange for the other preferment (Ib. 52), procured through the intereft of the then noble proprietors of Caversham pak, he refigned his ftudentship of Christchurch, as not tenable with Warley, and retained his beloved curacy of Caversham. Here he refided, and conftantly performed his clerical duties molt fatisfactorily to every clafs of his numerous parishioners, by whom he was justly esteemed as invariably exhibiting genuine goodnature and cheerful benevolence. His eye-fight began to fail him fome time before his death, fo that he found it expedient to have recourfe to an affiftant on Sundays; when, however, almoit to the very lait, he would venture to do a part of the duty: and when he left honie in November laft, in order to pay his annual vifit to his parish in Eflex, he fully intended to be again at Caversham before Christmas-day, and then to perform a part of the fervice. His natural alertness was not checked by the common infirmities of age, though he was not infenfible to the ftriking alteration in his fituation by the death or migration of feveral of his oldeft parishioners and moft valued friends. Upon the college having, in the courfe of last year, alienated the tithes of Caverfham, in pursuance of the set of paulia ment enabling ecclefiaftical bodies to alienate for the purpose of redeeming their Jard-tax, he was anxious that fome fixed addition fhould be made to the faunty ftipend of the curate. He, therefore, previously applied upon this fubject to his friend, the late Bishop of Oxford, who was also a canon of Christchurch, who Confidered his application as highly reafon able; but both bhop and curate died be fore any thing effectual was done in this matter. Mr. Vatas was ore of the oldest on the lift of army chaplains, and was also chaplain to Lord Cadogan, and a freeman of the corporation of Cambridge. P. 113. The epitaph on Spong (whofe family, together with that of Hollis, and allo Fierland, will exist at Ockham) is faid to have been written (upon the teftimony of William and Thomas Lord Kings) by the late Mr. Daniel Way.-Thomas Lord King, the grandfather of the prefent lord, was a merchant in Holland, and there married a Dutch lady. P 177. A correfpondent fays, "Mr. Malthus was every thing you have faid of him. But what idea is to be: ffixed to the word eccentric? His good tafte in layingout ground, m the forme one, was greatly difplayed in the beautiful valley about three miles Weit beyond Dorking in Surrey, Rear We ton. After this place, called The Rookery, was improved to the utraoft, it was fold to Mr. Fuller the banker." *We feel ple. fure in correcting our own errois as well as thofe of others, and fhall make no apology for tranfcribing, from the Monthly Magazine of March laft, the following letter, refpecting the character, &c. of Dan. Makhus, efq. "SiF, I fball efteem it a particular favour, if you will allow me to correct an erroneous paragraph, which appeared in your Obituary for laft month. Dan. Makhus, efq. is there mentioned as the tranflator of fome pieces from the French and German. I can fay, from certain knowledge, that he did not tranflate them. The turn of his mind very GENT. MAC. March, 1800. little difpofed him to imitation, or to the copying, in any way, the works of others. Whatever he wrote was drawn from the original fource of his own fine understand. ing and genius; but, from his fingular, unoftentatious, and retired character, and his constant defire to fhun every thing that might attract notice, will probably never be known as his. T. ROBERT MALTHUS." P. 178, b. 1. 30. luftead of "the French tranflation of Xenophon's works by Pyramus de Candale, Cologn, 1613," r. 66 a: Large paper of Hutchinfon's Xenophon's Cyropedia and Anabafis, in 4 vols. of which there were but a very few copies, printed." The fale was in 1764. P. 184, 3. Duke Peter of Courland was born Feb. 15, 1724; and refigned the dutchy of Courland to Ruffia in 1795. Ibid. Dr. Mack night was an eminent clergyman of the Church of Scotland, diftinguished by his learned and eseful labours in ilration and defence of the New Teltament. He publifhed, 1755, his celebrated "Harmony of the Four Gospels," 4to; and, in 1764, "The Truth of the Gospel History thewed," 4to; bath which were received with the approbation which fuch laborious and mafterly performances merit; and the Harmony was extended to 2 vols. 4to, 1756. In 1787, he published a new literal tranflation from the original Greek of the Apostle Paul's first and fecond Epiftles to the Theffalonians, intended as a fpecimen of a literal tranflation of all the apoftolic epiftles, with com mentaries, notes, and effays, about which he had been for many years employed. This complete work did not make its appearance till 1795, when it was published in 4 vols. 4to. P. 187, b. The account of the death of the Countefs-dowager of Darlington is premature, the being likely, we gladly fay, to recover from her very long illness. P. 188, a. l. 40, r. "the Rev. William Deane, M.A. 1757, B.D. 1770." He bad alfo the living of Dinton, in Witthire, from Magdalen college, Oxford, of which he was elected fellow in 1768. P. 188, b. 1. 20, r. "Caroline, wife of Edward Grove, eiq." BIRTHS. N Spring garden, the Hon. Mrs. 18. I Grenfell, lady of Palcne G. efiq. of Taplow, Bucks, and fifter of Lord Vifeount Doneraile and Lady Riverfdale, a daughter. 24. At Abbeford, the Countefs of Eirol, a daughter. 25. At Barrogill-cafle, in Scotland, the Countefs of Caithness, a fon. 28. At Stonehoufe, near Plymouth, the wife of John Temple, fq. a fon ard heir. Lat ly, at Dorchefter, the wife of Col. Boardman, a fon and Ler. The The wife of Wyndham Goodden, efq. of Bristol, a fon. At Watchfield-houfe, Berks, the wife of Rowley Lafcelles, efq. a daughter. At Nottingham, the wife of Mr. Joshua Doubleday, three daughters; two of whom are fince dead; the other, with the mother, likely to do well. Mar. 4 In Welbeck-ftr. Manchester-fq. the wife of Lieut.-col. Drink water, a dau. 9. At the Earl's house in Grosvenor-fqu. the Countess of Derby, a fon. 11. The wife of John Shelley Sydney, cfq of Penshurft-cafile, Kent, a fon and heir. 14. At Bartley lodge, Hants, the wife of Charles Lyell, efq. a daughter. 17. The wife of James Macrae, efq. of Holmains, in Scotland, a daughter. 19. At his feat at Calk-hall, Derby, the lady of Sir H. Harpur, bart. a daughter. 23. At Edinburgh, the wife of the Hon. Col. Forbes, of the Coldstream regiment of guards, a daughter. 24. At his houfe at Sutton, Surrey, the wife of Beefton Long, efq. a daughter. MARRIAGES. 8. Edward Miller Mundy, efq. eldeft fon af E. M. M. efq. of Shirley, M. P. for the county of Derby, to Mifs Barton, daughter of James B. efq. of Penwortham, co. Lanc. At Streatham, Surrey, Saintbury Langford Sainsbury, efq. of Highgate, to Mifs Hutton, of Parrock, Kent. 9. At Charlton, co. Doriet, Capt. Forster Maynard, of the Bengal artillery, to Mifs Newland Martin. IO. At Wirksworth, Mr. Drewry, prin ter of Derby, to Mifs Sweatenam, daugh. of James S. efq. of Wigwell-hall, co. Derby. 11. James Hewitt Maffy Dawfon, efq. of Ireland, to Mifs Dennis, eldest daughter of the late Francis D. efq. of Jamaica. 13. James Campbell, efq. of Warnfordcourt, to Mifs Eliza Roberts, youngest dau. of Tho. R. efq. of Charter-house-fquare. Henry Stanyford Blanckley, efq. conful at Majorca, Minorca, and Ivica, to Mifs Richards, of Sulham-house, Berks. 14. William-Henry Pattiffon, efq. of Witham, Effex, to Mifs Hannah Thornthwaite, of Iflington. 15. Rev. Wm. Benfon Ramfden, of the Charter-houfe, and fellow of Chrift's col lege, Cambridge, to Mifs Dowie, of Mill Feb. RANCIS FREEEING, efq. fe- to Mifs Newbery, daughter of Francis N. Edward Aftle, efq. of the Exchequer, to Mifs Bateman, of Gloucester. 25. Mr. R. R. Lind, furgeon of the ift battalion of the King's own infantry, to Mifs Eliza Brown, dau. of Capt. B. of Ipfwich. 26. Tho. Leach, efq. of Lantriffant, co. Glamorg. to MifsOkines, of Newington, Sur. 27. T. B. Fope, efq. to Mifs Green, both of Sale's-court, Maidstone, Kent. March 1. At Feltham, Middlesex, Mr. Jofeph Toulaint, of Sackville-street, Picadilly, to Mifs Brecknell, of Bell-Broughton, co. Worcester. 2. Earl Morton, to Lady Mary Howe, daughter of the late gallant Naval Hero. 3. At Edinburgh, Richard Scougall, efq. merchant, of Leith, to Mis Magdalene Walker, eldest daughter of the Rev. Rob. W. of Cannongate. 4. At Leighton-Buzzard, Thomas Paget, efq. of Cranmore-hall, co. Somerset, to Mifs Mary Moore, of Eddington-houfe, co. Bedford, daughter of Francis M. efq. colonel of the militia of that county. 5. At St. George's, Hanover-fquare, Charles-Frederick De Coetlogon, efq. late his Majesty's naval-ftorekeeper at St. Domingo, to Mits Edkins, of Newbury. 6. Henry Darlot, efq. of the Foreign Poftoffice, to Mifs Troup, of Jamaica. At Sculcoates, co. York, Mr. Henry Byron, raff merchant, to Mife Thornton, granddaugh. of Sir Sam, Standidge, knt. of Hull. Sir Wilham Bagenal Burder, bart. of Dromore, in Ireland, to Mits Maria ReyLett, of Great Prefcot-street. 17. At Enfield, the Rev. Mr. Milne, lecturer and mafter of the free-fchool in that parish, to Mifs Gautier, only daughter and heiress of the late Mr. G. filk-weaver, of Spital-fields. 19. At Ripon, co. York, Hugh Blaydes, efq. of Paull, in the Eaft riding, to Mifs Delia-Maria Wood, fecond daughter of Richard W. efq. of Hollin-house, in fame co. 20. Thomas Vigne, efq. to Mifs Thornton, of Austin-friers. 22. Capt. Bourke, of the 1ft foot-guards, to Mifs Elizabeth-Jane Bourke, youngest daughter of John B. efq. 24. At the house of Mr. Dundas, at Wimbledon, Surrey, by the Rev. Jofeph Hollis, the Earl of Westmorland, to Mifs Saunders, young est daughter of the late Dr. Huck S. and great niece to the late Sir Charles S. K. B. whofe niece, her mother, died July 25, 1780. 25. Lieut.-col. Warren, of the 3d footguaids, to Mifs Maitland, daughter of the late Thomas M. efq. and grand-daughter of Gen. Matthew. DEATHS. T Madras, aged 77, George 1799 Baker, eiq. In the active July 9. feafon of life he was varioufly employed by the East India Company, always to the benefit of the publick and to his own honour. The accuracy of his Survey to the Eastward has been confirmed by fubfe quent navigators. He was the firit European mafter-attendant at that port; an of fice he filled to the entire fatisfaction of Government and the trading part of the community. community. By his indefatigable perfeverance that fettlement was relieved from the diftrefs it had experienced by the want of wholesome water. He difcovered the pureft and beft fprings, and amply fupplied the black town and the fort through pipes, which led alfo to the fea-beach for the ufe of the fhipping. In confideration of this great public benefit, the East India Company granted him an annuity of 500l, ftering; and with it he received, what his own benevolence made valuable, the gratitude of all ranks of the community, for the bleffing difpenfed through his means. That benevolence ceafed only with his life; for, even within the last days of his exiftence, knowing that but few could remain, he projected meafures to guard against any failure of the requifite fupplies of water in the prefent feafon of extreme drought. A fcrupulous integrity diftinguished his conduct throughout life. He was religious and charitable; in his nature moft gentle and compaffionate. Sept.... At Bombay, in the Eaft Indies, in his 53d year, Major-general James Hartley, commander of the troops on that eftablishment; an officer univerfally be.oved, admired, and lamented. He had, by his military fervice, contributed to, and juft lived to fee, the greatest event that ever occurred in the annals of the wars of Hindoftan, the fall of Seringapatam, and the death of the Sultaun of Myfore; when, alas! in himself was verified, that "The paths of glory lead but to the gravel" 08. 21. At Barbados, Col. Steuart, of the 1ft Weft India regiment. Nru. 10. At Castlebar, in Ireland, after ftruggling for a month with feveral relapfes under a nervous fever, the Rev. Thomas Thompson, dean of Killala, and parith-minister of that town; of whom honourable mention is frequently made in the "Narrative of what paffed at Killala during the French Invafion in the Summer of 1793." 16. At New York, Mr. James Dun can, merchant. "Barimens du Roi" (fimilar to our "Board of Works"), and continued fo till the abolition of the place in 1792. Since that period he has ftruggled with difficulties at Verfailles, till within a fhort time before his death, when a fm ll penfion, vacant by the death of M. de Sauffure, was procured for him through the exertions of his friend Geoffroy the physician. 180. Fan.... At Tottenham, Middlefex, Mr. Marshall, many years an oilman in Bartholomew clofe, but had long retired from business. 27. At Afh, in Hampshire, aged 15, Anthony-Brydges Lefroy, fecond fon of the Rev. George L. rector of Ath, and of Compton in Surrey, by Anne his wife, daughter of the late Edward Brydges, efq. of Wootton-court, Kent. He was a youth of firm and steady intellect; and of the most placid, amiable, and affectionate difpofition; and bore the excruciating pains of the difease which carried him off (a difeafe of an extraordinary nature, arifing from fome enlargement of the heart), with incomparable resignation. The affliction of his parents for fuch a lofs can be better conceived than expreffed. 30. Aged 40, Mrs. Anne Hides, wife of Mr. William H. of Tid St. Mary's, co. Lincoln; who, on Feb. 17, was married to Mifs Efther Hofon, only daughter of Mr. Wm. H. of Tid St. Giles's, in the Ifle of Ely, after a courtship of 12 hours. Feb. I. At Calverley, co. York, at an advanced age, Mrs. Travifs; in whose venerabl character the pious Christian and fincere friend were united. 4. At Iddefleigh parfonage-house, Devon, aged 60, in great agonies, after a total fuppreffion of urine, but perfectly refigned to the will of God, the Rev. William Tasker, of Exeter. Iddefleigh was in the patronage of Mrs. Jane Tasker, wis dow, 1772; and he had been rector of it near 30 years, but never enjoyed the income of it more than 5 years, from original incumbrances, which incumbrances were the occafion of merciless and fevere Dec. 18. At Verfailles, J. Stephen Montucla, member of the National Institute, etica' effort was "An Ode to the Warand of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin; like Genius of Britain, 1778," 4to, which born at Lyons, Sept. 5, 1725. His "Hif had a fecond edition the following year toire des Mathematiques," in 2 vols. 40, (fee vol. XLIX. p. 537), and a third in published 1758, obtained him great repu- a collection of other poems, in the fame tation. The latter part of his life was em- fize. These were, " An Ode to Curiosity, ployed in preparing a new edition of this a Bath-Eafton Amufement, ad edit.; a work for the prefs; and we are glad to Poetical Encomium on Trade, addrefled to learn that he had completed his manu.cr.pt the mercantile City of Briftol; Elegy on arrangements for it, and that it is likely to the Death of Mr. Garrick; Congratulabe printed by his friends.-In 1765, the tory Ode to Admiral Keppel; Carmen Chevalier Turgot having been appointed Seculare of Horace, tranflated into Englith governor of Ciyenne, Montucla went out Verte" (XLIX. 361). In 1780 he printwith him as fecretary and aftronomer. His ed "An Ode to the Memory of the Right tay the, however, was but short; as he Rev. Thomas Wilfon, ate Lord Bishop of returned to France in 1766, and was ap Man," 4to (L. 289) Que to Speculapotted firit clerk in the department of the top, a poetical Amafement tor Bath-Faf. perfecations and litigations. His firit no |